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The 2010 Imperative; URGENT!
Jan 29th
This morning, BLDGBLG has a great interview with Ed Mazria, the founder of Architecture 2030,
"architecture – or the building sector, more generally – is the largest single source of greenhouse gas emissions, worldwide."
From the interview:
BLDGBLOG: When you say that the building sector is responsible for half of all greenhouse gas emissions, though, do you mean that in a direct or an indirect sense? Because surely houses aren’t just sitting there emitting carbon dioxide all day – it’s the power plants that those houses are connected to.
Mazria: It’s direct. The number is actually 48% of total US energy consumption that can be attributed to the building sector, most of which – 40% of total consumption – can be attributed just to building operations. That’s heating, lighting, cooling, and hot water. There are others – running pumps and things like that. But 40% of total US energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions can be attributed just to building operations."
link http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2007/01/architecture-and-climate-change.html
Canaletto paints W. Etheridge’s remarkable Walton Bridge
Jan 24th
Designed by William Etheridge and built 1748-50, The Walton Bridge was much admired for its ‘strength, contrivance and remarkable great arch,’ and was even described as ‘the most beautiful wooden arch in the world ‘ – beautiful enough for Canaletto to paint it twice – the image above is a crop of one of these paintings. The Walton Bridge’s main span was 130 feet, with two side arches of 44 feet. Sadly, it decayed and lasted only 33 years until 1783.
More on the bridge >>here<<
via StrangeHarvest.com
Ice Hotel Canada melts April 1!
Jan 24th
Sweden’s famous frozen retreat has a little sister closer to home. Because Quebec City isn’t as chilly as its Arctic Circle counterpart, the Ice Hotel Canada is open from January to April, which gives the establishment’s truly talented artists the chance to re-think the architecture, providing different designs each season. Our ideal Ice Hotel itinerary? Days filled with ice fishing, dog sledding and a Native American Igloo workshop (DIY to the max), and nights in the N’Ice Club with our new hotel pals, followed by some outdoor hot tubbing amidst the ethereal glow of the ice. Sign us up today.
link Ice Hotel Canada
via Trendcentral
Aitken’s “Sleepwalkers” @ MoMA, NYC tomorrow night
Jan 15th
The only thing happening in NYC tomorrow night:
Continuous sequences of film scenes will be projected onto eight facades, including those on West Fifty-third and Fifty-fourth streets and those overlooking The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden. Inspired by the densely built environment of New York’s midtown, the artist will create a cinematic art experience that directly integrates with the architectural fabric of the city while simultaneously enhancing and challenging viewers’ perceptions of public space. The project, filmed in New York City, will be shown daily from 5:00 p.m. until 10:00 p.m., and is intended to be visible from many public vantage points adjacent to the Museum.
BLDGBLOG Event this Saturday at Center for Land Use Interpretation
Jan 9th
If you find yourself in Los Angeles this weekend, be sure to check out the first ever BLDGBLOG event at the Center for Land Use Interp.:
Alex Schweder at Suyama Space
Jan 5th
Remember building a fort out of a sheet and a fan on a hot summer day? Hours of fun and the coolest space in the house. If you liked that, you’ll love Alex Schweder’s new work.
From the press release:
A SAC OF ROOMS THREE TIMES A DAY: Installation by Alex Schweder
A Sac of Rooms Three Times a Day, 2006, Transparent vinyl, blown air, 21’ x 28’ x 9’
Photography by Alex Schweder
Seattle artist/architect Alex Schweder continues his exploration of the permeable relationship between occupied space and occupying bodies, upcoming at Suyama Space, located at 2324 2nd Avenue, Seattle
The site-specific installation, A Sac of Rooms Three Times a Day opens to the public on January 15 and continues through April 13, 2007. A reception for Schweder on Friday, January 12 from 5 – 7 p.m. will be followed by an artist lecture on Saturday, January 13 at 12 noon. Gallery hours are Monday – Friday, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. and admission is free to the public.
Seattle Sculpture Park Documentary Tonight on KCTS
Jan 3rd
Can’t wait for the grand opening on January 20th? This might be just what you’re looking for, tonight on KCTS:
9:00 PM
Channel: 9
At the north edge of Seattle’s downtown waterfront, just down the hill from Seattle Center, a brand new park is taking shape: The Olympic Sculpture Park, which will open to the public on January 20, 2007. Built on a long-vacant, 9-acre site that had to be cleaned up after 70 years as an oil depot, the Olympic Sculpture Park is already being acclaimed as one of the most unique urban parks in the world, with its combination of sweeping views of Puget Sound and the Olympic Mountains, groves of native trees and plants, wide open green spaces, a reclaimed beach and grand-scale works of art. Art Without Walls: the Making of the Olympic Sculpture Park is the story of how the park came to be and what visitors have to look forward to.
JANUS IS BACK
Dec 9th
Hot-damn, Janus if back! A great, interdisciplinary zine. Thanks to those who’ve taken up the challenge and good luck!
From the press release:
The cult of Janus is back and again on the lookout for adepts that are willing to join this cross-disciplinary adventure. The magazine has been away from the scene for a while after Jan Fabre, who founded it in 1998, decided to interrupt its publication last year. In April 2006, Charlotte Bonduel, Luigi di Corato, Giovanni Iovane, Frank Maes, Nicola Setari and Marleen Wynants accepted Jan Fabre’s challenge to continue the project and compose the new editorial board. If you missed the launch of issue # 20 (it came out in June and was presented in Milan at the Pavilion for Contemporary Art, in Basel at the Contemporary Art Fair, in Antwerp at the Museum of Fine Arts, in Munich at the Lenbachhaus and in Turin at the Contemporary Art Fair) you cannot miss the launch of issue # 21 at Argos in Brussels.
"as Aristotle put it speaking of Plato: “Amicus Plato, sed magis amica veritas” . (Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.”
via e-flux
more here: http://www.janusonline.net/
LAB MAG NYC w/ VITO ACCONCI
Dec 8th
Don’t miss this!
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LAB ANNOUNCES LAUNCH OF LAB MAG |
(The launch will include a series of panel-style presentations -beginning at 6:30PM- by architect Vito Acconci of Acconci Studio, experimental-poet Jena Osman, artist Adam Pendleton and designers David Reinfurt and Sarah Gephart of O-R-G)
NEW CENTRE POMPIDOU-METZ
Oct 31st
Today marks the beginning of construction on the new Centre Pompidou-Metz, an extension of the Pompidou Centre in the town of Metz, France. Oddly costume-like, coincidence?
From the Telegraph: "The building that Ban has designed for Metz was partially inspired by a Chinese peasant’s hat which the architect found in a Parisian market. To Ban, the woven bamboo of the hat suggested a kind of architectural canopy which set him on a train of thought that eventually led to a vast, luminescent, conical roof that will tie the various elements of the new Pompidou together. Ninety metres wide, this sinuous crown will be made up of a timber frame woven into a hexagonal lattice and then coated in a fibreglass membrane topped with a layer of Teflon.
"It was not so much the shape of the hat that interested me but the way that it was made," says Ban, talking at his temporary European office perched on the roof of the original Pompidou Centre. "It was not only the pattern but the structure itself, which is very light but can span big distances.
Read more here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2006/10/30/baban30.xml
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